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BALTIMORE — A three-judge federal court panel ruled Wednesday that the state unconstitutionally drew the boundary lines for Maryland’s 6th Congressional District to benefit Democrats, and banned the map from being used in future elections.

Because the congressional maps are interconnected, the decision effectively

"the state might be well advised to establish a neutral commission to develop a conforming plan"

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BALTIMORE — Maryland Attorney Brian Frosh announced Thursday that he is appealing a U.S. District Court decision ordering that the map of the Sixth Congressional District be redrawn for the 2020 election. The appeal will send the case of Benisek v. Lamone back to the U.S. Supreme Court, where arguments were heard earlier this year. The high court sent the case back to District...

Federal judges in Maryland on Wednesday blocked the state from using its congressional voting map in future elections, ordering political leaders to draw new electoral lines for contests in 2020. The three-judge panel unanimously threw out the congressional map in a long-running partisan gerrymandering case. The decision gives Maryland officials until March to submit a new...

A federal court on Wednesday ordered Maryland to adopt a new congressional map for the 2020 elections, ruling that the state’s current map unconstitutionally diminished the value of Republican voters in the 6th District in the western neck of the state. The three-judge panel’s ruling in the partisan gerrymandering case, which has gone twice to the Supreme Court on preliminary...

A panel of three federal judges has ruled that the boundaries of Maryland’s 6th congressional district were unconstitutionally drawn in 2011 to benefit Democrats, at the expense of Republican voters’ rights. The court ordered Maryland to submit a plan by March 7 to remedy the problem or else it will appoint a three-member commission to do the job. The fix could result in an...

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